Episode 8: Long Distance Love
Diana's husband Tyler joins again for the first time since their move to South Korea. They catch up on all of their current peaks and pits and dive into a topic all too familiar for military families, long distance love. Whether you're also a military family experiencing TDYs or deployments, or you just started dating someone from a different state, or if your significant other is frequently on the road for work, you'll relate to this episode. They cover what has helped them in the past, what they need to work on, and what this upcoming year of frequent distance might look like. For a more detailed view, here is a minute by minute breakdown of the episode:
1 - 16 Peak and pit of the week . The ski trip, Korean coffee shop culture is my life now, Tyler’s new job within the squadron, and the Jeonju hanok village. Travel isn’t as seamless as it was in Europe, real life begins again for Tyler.
16 - 57 The topic of the week, long distance relationships. Whether it be dating long distance, TDYs, deployments, or if your spouse travels a lot for work.
Often times the hardest part of distance is coming back together and learning to do life again together.
Trust.
Have a schedule you stick to of things that make you happy.
Realistic communication expectations, and learning to find flexibility in those.
Loving with your love language long distance.
Being 100% yourself, apart from each other as opposed to “completing” each other. Not having your life revolve around that person.
Sprinkling in events throughout the time apart of things to look forward to.
Watching the same tv show together again.
